Bundle-tier.



G. BERNATH.

BUNDLE TIER.

APPLIOATION FILED 3330.26, 1913.

1,100,945. Patented June 23, 1914.

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GEORGE IBERNA'IH, OF GARY, INDIANA, ASSIGNOB, OF FIFTY ONE-HUNDREDTHS T0 NIKOLA ANTICEVICH, O15 GARY, INDIANA.

BUNDLE-TIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 23, 1914:.

Application filed December 26, 1913. Serial No. 868,789.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE BERNATH, a subject of the King of Hungary, residing at Gary, in the county of Lake and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bundle-Tiers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in bundle tiers and has for its main object the provision of a bundle tier in which a plurality of independent packages or bundles may be advantageously bound and to any of which packages or bundles access may be easily had for removal thereof without removal or disturbance of the remaining bundles or packages.

The device is more particularly adapted for use in connection with the packaging of mail matter, though not confined to such use, and it has in addition to the above stated object the further object of providing a tier so constructed and arranged that a single fastening or securing means acts to tighten the tier upon all the bundles or packages contained therein.

Briefly described the invention comprises a skeleton case which is formed of a plurality of separate members, the present illus tration embodying three members that are preferably in the form of straps or strips rather than of cords, though obviously the latter could be used. Two of these members are of identical construction and they form two sides of the case and also the major portion of the ends. The remaining member constitutes the tie and is adjustably-engaged with the other two members, the strands thereof forming two of the sides of the cage as well as a part of the ends of such cage.

The invention will be hereinafter more fully described and then claimed, and in describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification and wherein like numerals of reference will be employed for designating like parts throughout the difierent views of the drawings, in which Figure l is a perspective view of a bundle tier constructed in accordance with my invention, and Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation showing a plurality of packages of letters bound within the tier.

To put my invention into practice, I profor its ends.

vide two strap members 5 and 6, the ends of each member being suitably fastened together as at 7, which fastening may be of a snap-button type so as to be separable, or a permanent one, as desired. These two strapmembers when the ends are fastened together are in the form of oblong bands and form two sides of the case, and are provided on one side strand with spaced keepers 8, on the other side strands are similar spaced keepers 9, and on the end loops or bows of these bands 5 and 6 are keepers 10. The keepers 8, 9 on the respective strands of the strap 5 are opposite to and in alinement with the keepers 8, 9 on the respective strands of the strap 6, and the keeper 10 at each end of the strap 5 is opposite to and in alinement with the keeper 10 on each end of the strap 6. The remainder of the case is formed from a single strap which is of a length sufficient to pass longitudinally around the straps 5, 6, and twice around said straps 5, 6 transversely of the latter. This strap 11 has a buckle 12 or other suitable fastening device It is passed first through one pair of keepers 8, then through the opposite pair of keepers 9 after which it is looped together as at 14 and then passed through the keepers 10 at one end of the case and is carried around longitudinally and passed through the other pair of keepers 10 and carried along the side of the case to a point in transverse alinement with the other pair of keepers 89 and is then looped as at 15 and carried through the keepers 9-9 and 88 and the buckle 12 or other securing device fastened. This strap thus forms a longitudinal strand for two opposite sides of the case, a transverse strand for each end of the case; and two transverse strands for each of the other two sides of the case. This arrangement forms two end compartments, and a central or intermediate compartment in the casein which independent packages as of a pair of spaced oblong bands, keepers In testimony whereof I atfix my signature carried by the longituccllinal sltrands Izllnd by in presence of two Witnesses.

the ends of said ban s, anc a ti tening strap passed through all of the keeiers and GEORGE BERNATH' extended longitudinally around the band Vitnesses:

and transversely across the bands With its B. A. Lnsoon,

ends fastened together. W. M. DUNN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

